Others have observed that Tolkien depicts Mordor as specifically evil, and as a vision of industrial environmental degradation, contrasted with either the homey Shire or the beautiful elvish forest of Lothlórien. Another forerunner that Tolkien was very familiar with is the account of the monster Grendel's unearthly landscapes in the Old English poem Beowulf. These both protected the land from invasion and kept those living in Mordor from escaping.Ĭommentators have noted that Mordor was influenced by Tolkien's own experiences in the industrial Black Country of the English Midlands, and by his time fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War. Mordor was surrounded by three mountain ranges, to the north, the west, and the south. Mount Doom, a volcano in Mordor, was the goal of the Fellowship of the Ring in the quest to destroy the One Ring. It lay to the east of Gondor and the great river Anduin, and to the south of Mirkwood. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Mordor (pronounced from Sindarin Black Land and Quenya Land of Shadow) is the realm and base of the evil Sauron. He manages to escape the tight and surprisingly strong fingers and cracks Gollum across the back with the cane, who squeals and runs off into the dark.The Land of Shadow, the Black Land, the Nameless Landīarad-dûr (the Dark Tower), Mount Doom, the Morannon (Black Gate), Cirith Ungol, Gorgoroth, Udûn Gollum, who was much kinder in the original version of the story, tries to strangle him, but Sam breaks free by hitting the weasel with a staff that Faramir and his Rangers gave them in Ithillien. Shelob manages to worm her way in between them, and as Sam yells out to warn Frodo that she is behind him, he is clasped from behind by Gollum and knocked off his feet. Feeling triumphant, and desperate to be free of the foul air in the tunnels, Frodo rushes forward, towards the exit. They come across the sticky web, after hours of rooting around in the dark, and Frodo uses the glowing Sting to cut through the coils. Gollum, knowing what is coming, leaves them to lose their way, as he does with Frodo in the film. The answer does of course still lie with Gollum, for who else? The two hobbits enter into Shelob's lair side by side, stumbling in the dark, unaware of the peril that awaits them. Sam clearly wasn’t with him when it happened, so how does the chapter really play out? But if the scene never happened in the books, how did the two hobbits become separated? Sam does find Frodo’s body, stung by Shelob, and paralyzed, at the top of the tunnel. The scene is contrived, and perhaps out of place in an otherwise fairly faithful adaptation. Many fans of the books dislike the scene because it paints an unfeeling side to Frodo, and a weak side to Sam, who just accepts what he is told. The scene is cruel and bitter, and Sam who has been the bravest of them all, and the most loyal companion by Frodo’s side through thick and thin is heartbroken. Frodo, who is already suspicious of everything around him, and is not in a fit mental state to reason as he is slipping further and further into the clutches of the ring, sends Sam away, telling him that he can’t go with Frodo any further, and must return home. He then scattered crumbs on Sam’s jacket, and when they wake up, he convinces Frodo that Sam is a fat and greedy hobbit, who has been stealing it and eating it when the master isn’t looking. In the dead of night, when both of the hobbits are asleep, Gollum steals their last supply of Lembas bread, the only food they have left to see them through the journey, and drops it off the steep cliff. Thus, Gollum comes up with a cunning plan to separate the two, which would render the Ring-bearer far more vulnerable to his plot. Sam has suspected Gollum and his tricksy ways from the beginning and is always awake and alert, ready to foil the creature’s plans and protect Frodo from harm. RELATED: What Is The Real Reason That Wormtongue Kills Saruman?
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